Marathon (26.2 miles), Half Marathon (13.1 miles), and 5K (3.1 miles) are offered on both New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. The 5K happens start to finish before the half and full marathon so people can further "double up" by running two races each morning to earn more medals!

There will be a roped-off area for “drop bags” or “special needs bags”. Participants leave a bag in this unattended area so that they may access it right by the course at the end of a loop as needed. Participants leave these bags at their own risk. We highly suggest you not put anything valuable in this area. The event and its producers are not responsible for any contents that are lost or stolen. Drop bags must be the size of a standard small sportsack, basically the size of a filled plastic grocery sack. Your drop bag must have the ability to tie a luggage tag to it (like to a handle or drawstring).

This Drop Bags tent is only for half and full marathoners, not for the 5K. You must be wearing your race bib when you approach the Drop Bag tent. Participants will check in with the volunteers at the square white tent by the race site, the volunteer will write the participant's bib on a luggage tag and attach it to the bag, and then the participant will be directed where to place their bag. A brightly colored bag will be easier for you to find between loops.

Again, this is not a bag check area, and not for use by those not doing multiple loops of the course.

Half Marathon: 7 aid stations with water and sport drink, on average every 1.75 miles! At roughly miles 2.0, 3.8, 5.5, 6.6, 8.6, 10.4, 12.1

5K: 1 aid station (water only) on the 3.1 mile course.

Packet PickupPacket pickup details are here. You will have after-work opportunities to pick up your packets Thursday and Friday, December 28 and 29. Then, a chance at the race site Saturday, December 30th, in the afternoon (great for out of towners!). And of course, we always offer race morning packet pickup!

Parking
All parking is at the race site. There are enough spots for all the runners in the 3 parking lots of Celebration Park. Get there early to allow enough time for parking, potty lines, and especially extra time if you still need to pick up your packet since packet pickup closes 15 minutes before each race start.

Start CorralsStart corrals are in place to try to manage the best traffic flow of participants throughout race day morning. Corrals will be assigned based on the anticipated finish time and best recent finish results you enter during registration. Start corrals discussed more here...

Timing
The event will be chip timed. The "chip" is actually a tag attached to the back of the race bib. Unlike shoe chip tags, there are no special instructions for the bib tag. They do not have to be looped a specific way, nor is there possible runner mishandling that can compromise RFID timing.

Some tips that enhance reader sensitivity, all of which are very standard practices:

Bibs need to be worn to ensure race timing. If they do not wear a bib, they do not receive a time.

Bibs should be worn on the front of the body.

Bibs should be worn visible to anyone observing, so on the exterior of clothing. If youwear a jacket and place the bib underneath, it can help if you expose the underlying bib upon mat-crossing to enhance reader sensitivity. This is usually only a precaution.

Bibs should not be crumpled up and placed inside runner's clothing.

AwardsAll finishers receive a gorgeous colored finisher's medal. In addition, the following awards will be given each race day: